For more than a year, I’ve been writing essays about Punk Planet, the miracle of a magazine I worked on for 13 years. All that time I’ve been dreading writing this ending, because the reality is this: Sometimes things end and you never get over it. dansinker.com/posts/202…
honestly my day was pretty shitty until Elon got hit in the face
New favorite football crest just dropped.
The Times finally reporting what we all could see: Musk was absolutely tripping balls the entire time he destroyed the government. Very polite of them to wait to drop this until he’d left the position.
Why in the fuck would I want to do that?
Meanwhile, MySpaceTom is having the time of his life at a rave in Vegas.
rolling into hour 15 of this work day
Promotion and relegation makes sports so much more interesting. Real stakes and so many stories.
TIL THE END
Me at 9:30: I’m super tired and I’m going to just go to bed, hahahah, fuck yeah!!
Me at 3:30: Well this fucking sucks, what the fuck.
maybe every news org that quick produced a hot take on the Sun-Times AI reading list debacle should have fast-tracked a summer reading list of their own.
Hell yes. It used to be that if you wanted to dye your hair green, you took the train or the bus here, walked up to the second floor, got vibed by the person behind the counter and got a jar of Manic Panic. Now you go to CVS. Deserves landmark status for that alone.
This spending bill is going to kill so many fucking people.
Our car got completely coated from the dust storm.
I love when bad things happen to the Manchester City Football Club
We outran the dust storm on the way back from the shawarma place like an outtake from Twister.
Forget it Jake, it’s dust town.
Going full Dust Bowl over here.
Phone just reminded me that five years ago I’d make a weekly banner to mark our time inside.
Elderly woman sitting next to me on the plane with her screen text cranked up to max sending “DA POPE” to her entire address book.
Eating ranch with my pizza in honor of the Pope
The good news for Chicago won’t stop.
Anyway, to sum up: Chicago is the greatest city in the world.
You think we’re tiresome talking about hot dog condiments just wait
I’m a few years when we’ve got the new Pope and JB’s president we are never gonna shut up ever.
Chicago over everything.
I’m gonna need the Arsenal Football Club to lock in now.
Lollll when it’s absolutely and totally going great.
“Girls only need two dolls” and “Sure, baby strollers are more expensive but what about gasoline” are two surefire winner arguments and I hope he really digs in on both.
Happy Free Comic Book Day, one of the best days of the year!
Honestly, 15 friends is an unwieldy number of friends.
Happy May Day, from the city that brought it to you. 
Memory is a real son of a bitch. I thought I remembered the last painful years of Punk Planet vividly. Looking across the wreckage of Year 12, our next-to-last year, it turns out I didn’t.
Read “Things Fall Apart: Punk Planet, Year 12” dansinker.com/posts/202…
Yesterday was like 40 degrees colder than today
To mark Independent Bookstore Day today, I wrote about the bookshop that changed my life and why indies are more important than ever. dansinker.com/posts/202…
Just got feedback on something and the big takeaway was “Maybe cut half of the curse words.”
My brand remains strong.
Between Minecraft and Sinners can anyone remember this many people talking enthusiastically about the experience of seeing movies in movie theaters in the last 5 years? I can not. Like I said: I think movies are back.
Wow, I didn’t know that the Getty got the Raymond Pettibon archive this year. I want to dig through that so bad!! www.getty.edu/news/gett…
So Musk decimated staffing across the government, effectively shuttered multiple agencies, and ended most foreign aid, education, and science funding, while only trimming around $150B out of the budget??? Sounds like government was actually REMARKABLY efficient before he came along.
Kickstarter acknowledges that folks building things are royally fucked right now. <img src=“https://dansinker.micro.blog/uploads/2025/03a797d142.png" alt=“Since then, early beta testers have helped us shape and improve it in all the right ways, including adding a new Tariff Manager to help creators adapt to changing tariff and regulatory costs—without compromising reward delivery.
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We gotta bring back calling that guy a couchfucker
these fucks have no idea what they’re doing one day to the next. 
“Tesla said Tuesday that its profits fell 71 percent in the first three months of the year”
Is that a lot?
Blinks in Rebel Spirit
End stage capitalism, but make it food.
Lolllllllllllllllllll
Lol, we were like “Oh shit, that. What can we get at Walgreens?”
There’s just a couple hours left to vote for the Webbys. Please take 30 seconds and vote Rebel Spirit. vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVot…
Clone Wars getting real real over here.
from a pitch today: I like digging up bodies, especially when those bodies are old racists.
Sat down tonight, left my phone in the charger, and read an actual paper magazine cover to cover. A+, highly recommended activity.
I’m sorry they threw a what-themed wedding??? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/1…
being a parent of a nine-year-old means a lot of other parents ask you if your kid has read Harry Potter yet and so you get very used to the awkward silence that follows you saying “no because they were written by an anti-trans bigot, and besides there are a lot better books out there.”
The nine-year-old has become obsessed with America’s Funniest Home Videos which (1) still exists, (2) is now mostly people’s doorbell cam footage, and (3) illustrates how we got into this mess more vividly than any NYT profile has managed.
wishing the last dude left at the IRS good luck in detangling my tax thicket.
So now it is demonstrably cheaper to import fully assembled Chinese-manufactured electronics than the parts to assemble them here. These are deeply unserious people.
“The world is a built environment, and I think understanding how it was built is key to being able to truly live in it.”
Yesterday I wrote about taking things apart and putting them back together.
Hey, I wrote a thing about how you can learn by taking things apart, about how geeky electronics were transformed by the global supply chain, and about how nothing happening in in the administration right now is about fixing broken things. dansinker.com/posts/202…
The administration adding fully-alive people to the Social Security “death file” in order to make their lives unlivable should be the mother of all red lines. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/1…
Just end my life already please I am begging. I can not take how stupid this all is.
so how high will he go on China today before folding tomorrow? 200%?
I think what any company that wants to make a multi-billion dollar investment in domestic manufacturing that will take years to come to fruition and many more years that that to earn out is looking for is constantly-shifting decisions based on the ever-changing, chaotic whims of a mad king.
I think what any company looking to make a multi-billion dollar investment in domestic manufacturing that will take years to come to fruition and many many more years that that to earn out is the ever-changing chaotic whims of a mad king.
I have so many pals that in the last decade or so have gone into small-scale manufacturing: clicky keyboards, weirdo boardgames, hipster toys, niche electronics… every single one of them is entirely, 100% fucked right now.
I hope the me on the parallel earth where none of this happened is having the best fucking time.
January 2020 marked the year I was really gonna get my shit together. That didn’t work out so well.
Finally, after years of effort lining things back up, I was gonna really get my shit together in 2025.
It’s OK I’m sure we didn’t need coffee, bananas, literally all electronics, or the rule of law anyway.
Definitely emotionally fraught enough to really completely allow the Arsenal Football Club to fully destroy my afternoon.
Completely uninterested in getting out of bed this morning.
Do me a favor and vote for Rebel Spirit in the Webby Awards. Literally everything is so shitty and I want this goddamn award. Thank you! vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVot…
Sure there’s gonna be some short-term pain, but in 20-30 years we’ll have established all the expertise, materials, and infrastructure we need to build and assemble a $25,000 iPhone right here in the USA.
Everything is a hellscape but I’ve compulsively gone to the art museum more times in the last month than the previous five years so at least there’s that.
People in the streets is unequivocally good.
If you’ve never taken apart a piece of electronics before, it’s worth doing for a lot of reasons but today it’s a good lesson in how every single piece inside it, and there are a lot, was manufactured separately, often by an entirely separate company in a different country, down to the screws.
The Verge completely owned the story of the last time Trump tried to bring manufacturing back to America. www.theverge.com/c/2150796…
Every ad during the Premier League half is for a company that is now completely fucked.
Do you miss American manufacturing or do you miss large union memberships and income tax rates on the rich well north of 50%?
Sitting eating my little $1 packet of Indonesian noodles and realizing these tariffs are going to completely destroy H-mart aren’t they.
I think reporting out how the unpopulated penguin islands landed on the tariff list would probably answer a lot more questions than just that one.
I’m not going to read your “how to defeat fascism” post if it’s on Substack, a platform that actively supports fascists.
Driving the war rig to Costco.
Anyway I think the people that voted for this are bad, actually.
gonna try my hand at being one of those Great Depression guys that sells pencils out of a cup I guess.
Fixed the NYT headline. 
Guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from?
personally I would like to no longer be governed by a mad king now
it’s cool that I scrimped and saved a meager amount of money for my kid’s college just to have this asshole light it on fire
I’m just a guy who has obsessively made things for 30 years so what do I know, but I’d think factories take longer to build than the President of the United States seems to believe.
Wisconsin fought and clawed to get out from under the thumb of the Kochs and Uihleins who had bought and paid for gerrymandered Republican dominance for years. And then another rich motherfucker showed up and the whole state said not today.
Take the wins when they happen. Have some hope.
I fucking love Wisconsin
Ok doing an extended remembrance of John Lewis as he approaches 7:19 is… remarkable.
My nine-year-old is fully invested in Booker’s speech. Just got home from school and is completely amazed that he’s still going. Knows he’s witnessing something real.
YOOOOOOOOOOO Rebel Spirit has been nominated for a Webby. Please go vote!! vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVot…
Ok, you’re holding the Senate Floor and have run through your speech. What’s a topic you could speak about for hours without notes?
Me: Stone Cold Steve Austin vs Mr McMahon
Literally has never been a worse bet.
I didn’t really need more reasons to hate Manchester City, but they have some kind DaFont Simpsons knockoff on their jersey today.
The Residence was excellent from start to finish. The writing was tight and smart, Uzo Aduba was fucking incredible, and Giancarlo Esposito continues to be one of the very best to do the thing.
Hey take a minute to pause from doomscrolling and read about Year 11 of Punk Planet, a year where it’s legitimately impossible for me to believe how much we did. Issues! Books! A whole new magazine! So. Many. Things. dansinker.com/posts/202…
Genuine house-rattling Midwestern thunderstorm in full effect
It’s genuinely insane to me how much MORE relevant Rebel Spirit has become since Season One ended. You a story about the repercussions of erasing history and about what it takes to try and get people to face the truth about the past? And also Gritty? We’ve got you: rebelspiritpodcast.com
Disappearing people on the flimsiest of legal arguments for exercising protected speech is 100% going to lead down a very dark path that many of us stand on.
Took a break from the hellscape to hang out with the Thorne Room Miniatures
“We are currently clean on OPSEC”
Publishing screenshots of the entire groupchat all the way to including the entire chat membership list is the journalistic equivalent of “Fuck me? Fuck YOU.”
“We are currently clean on OPSEC” is definitely the LOL line in the published groupchat.
The funniest thing about all this to me is I’ve WRITTEN for the Atlantic and nobody looped the EIC into our chats, inadvertently or otherwise.
The thing about groupchats, even on Signal, is they are only as secure as your weakest link member.
Oh no, I’m watching the first ten minutes of Up.
My day job is to help run a search for a fellowship program that has always brought in some of the most amazing, creative, and righteous people I have ever known. And this year the search is being completely overrun with near-identical madlib answers generated with ChatGPT. It’s so disheartening.
Me telling myself that next week will be calmer than this week and believing it is my own personal Lucy-with-the-football.
Ok The Residence is very good.
Giancarlo Esposito is the fucking best.
There’s snow on the ground. Are we not demoralized enough???
Full on Dear Leader shit right here.
Noted radical left stronghold of Buffalo Grove Illinois. patch.com/illinois/… 
I get that Says Who may not be for everyone, but do yourself a favor and listen today, as we LOSE OUR MINDS discussing the actual real-but-fictional couple that influences Chuck Schumer’s legislative decisions. ~30 min is where we start. sayswhopodcast.com/episodes/…
The narrative of DOGE’s break-in (literally) at the US Institute of Peace is fucking gnarly as hell. www.washingtonpost.com/national-…
it is impossible to remember that it has not even been two months.
I am a dude with a big beard and so OF COURSE I have multiple drawers filled with cables and yet somehow can’t find a single cable that I actually need.
who has opinions on graffiti/poster markers, please share them with me. especially opinions on super wide ones.
This is going to ruin the tour.
thought the kid was having some kind of breathing episode in the other room, but it turns out he was just laughing at a book. my brain is cooked.
Right now it feels impossible to get anything done, but we all have to. So I wrote about how I’m trying to break my doom spiral by doing one thing: dansinker.com/posts/202…
It was 75 degrees on Friday and now it’s snowing
You can buy a blind box of my childhood.
The rats are in the mail.
BuT wHaT IF tHeY SHut doWN thE GOveRNmenT??
Motherfucker he did this AFTER your cowardly vote.
Ran into a celeb while out trying to walk off my rage. Northwestern, pay your foodservice workers.
so let’s say that by some miracle, Schumer doesn’t have the votes and this thing fails. He’s now 100% put the heat on Dems for a government shutdown, where yesterday it would have fallen on Republicans.
It’s extraordinarily nice outside so I’d appreciate if you gave me a reason to walk to the post office shop.dansinker.com
Just remembered that I almost got a job at Columbia University a couple years back, they chose a guy from Facebook instead and man am I glad I dodged that shitshow now.
As always the only ones gonna save us is us
the grocery store moved everything around and this is going to be my Joker moment
Fuck everything?
Yes.
Fuck everything.
For people obsessed with masculinity and “alpha energy,” the car show on the White House driveway was the weakest-looking shit I may have ever witnessed. Just two weak people standing there, terrified of what’s to come.
Would be genuinely curious to know if Donald Trump knows how to drive.
Has Trump bought his Tesla yet?
he should just sign an executive order saying stocks can’t go down and then, voila, problem solved.
Stock market great
I wrote the bakery and asked if I could have their Paczki sign once the week was over and, reader, they said yes.
Imagine being the richest person in the world and needing your mother to come to your defense.
I wanna meet the kid that goes to the arcade, wins 2500 tickets, and chooses the backgammon set. Because that kid has got to be awesome.
My elderly dog, after a day of whining, just passed a 4" long twig and honestly if she’s going to go out, I appreciate that she’s trying to do it doing what she loves: eating random shit off the ground.
Kicking off Insomnia Club a little early today. Welcome, I’m not glad you’re here.
Think we’ve forgotten about the time that Elon was booed so badly by fans of Dave Chapelle (of all people) that he locked himself in his office and Twitter employees considered calling the cops to do a wellness check.
What I’m saying is we can go harder.
Just talked with a couple of high school kids for a school project about the Klan and here is the thing: I will talk to high school kids over almost anyone, always, forever.
Hot dog I’m not watching this shit.
Good mail day.
The kid’s shirt captures my feelings on watching the speech tonight.
HAPPY PACZKI DAY
I knew that Trump was out for revenge this time, but my sights were set way too low. He’s out for revenge against the entire world for rejecting him.
These motherfuckers are so insulated in their weird little world that JD Vance thought that going skiing in Vermont was gonna work out for him.
I accidentally bought fat free milk and my whole house is in open revolt
In one week I wrote about the Klan and the Gilmore Girls. I contain multitudes.
Everything is very shitty! So I wrote abount the unexpected connection between Punk Planet and the Gilmore Girls. dansinker.com/posts/202…
Happy Economic Blackout to all who celebrate (you should celebrate)
It’s that time again. Welcome back to Insomnia Club, I’m not glad we’re here.
Not going to tell you what to do or anything, but if you sign up for my newsletter, tomorrow you’ll probably get some writing about the Gilmore Girls. dansinker.com/follow/
Oh no, Hackman. The Conversation and The Royal Tenenbaums are two of my all-timers. RIP
pretty amazing to write about a guy from a hundred years ago and then get an email from one of his descendents.
tbh opinion sections should not exist.
For obvious reasons, worth pointing out that Says Who podcast has sold “Kick Bezos in the Balls” Ts for years. merch.sayswhopodcast.com/collectio…
Well shit. Welcome to Insomnia Club.
I wrote a post about the Klan 100 years ago and how the grip they held on the US seemed impossible to break, but people fought them anyway. And it’s been read by tens of thousands of you (!!!). I guess people want stories of hope right now. dansinker.com/posts/202…
Gutting out Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy is such absolute ghoul shit.
PACZKI DAY IS IN ONE WEEK. ALERT. ALERT. ALERT.
The season ender of Rebel Spirit is out today. It’s been a long journey to try and change a racist high school mascot, and this episode finds Akilah back home. But with Trump now in charge, things are changing in Florence—and everywhere. rebelspiritpodcast.com/episodes/…
Insomnia Club is back in session. I’ve missed a few meetings, apologies. I brought a coffee cake.
RIP to the most beautiful woman in puppetland. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/2…
In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…
The problem with trying to write right now is you’ve got to slog through hours of existential dread first.
I mean I guess that’s the problem with everything right now.
any government worker that doesn’t give a fuck: I will write your bullet points. just reach out.
Journalism teachers, did you know the Freedom of the Press Foundation has a FREE digital security curriculum for J students? Get it get it get it. J Students, if your teachers won’t get it, self-organize and teach it to each other. freedom.press/digisec/g…
I know white house reporters are currently cowering for access, but it would be nice for someone to ask about Elon’s continued and ever-more-public drug abuse in the context of its threat to national security.
OK enough of this shit, I’m heading to Stardew Valley.
The one solace I take in this news of Trump possibly taking over the post office: I once was in a hotel hosting a postal employee union convention and I have never seen people party as hard, as long, and as wildly as those folks. It was just unreal. They will not take this shit lightly in the least.
At a grade school black history concert right now and it is chaotic and awful and honestly I’d rather be anywhere else but also fuck every monster that wants to take this from kids.
Just got a cocaine brick of TRYING patches delivered. Help me out and get some! shop.dansinker.com/products/…
If we’re doing a King maybe more of a Louis XVI thing?
Every art weirdo of a certain vintage in Chicago has always been ready to stand up for Ukraine because of living in the Ukranian Village in the 90s. They were our brusk landlords who actually fixed things! They were the old ladies who served us perogies! The tracksuit mobsters who left us alone!
So let me get this straight: every tech exec and VC is just absolutely tripping balls all the time now and the best they’ve come up with is a copyright-eating machine and fascism? www.wired.com/story/ket…
I’m fun at parties.
This is the doge rat looking at your tax returns right now. www.motherjones.com/politics/…
Definitely think maybe this is too many plane crashes?
Absolutely thrilled about some little doge rat named Shrimpcock or whatever looking at my taxes. Enjoy.
desperately trying to smash my thick meat brain thoughts into something that resembles sense
Snowy and cold, but Chicago stood up for trans kids outside Lurie Children’s Hospital today.
the dems have tens of millions of email addresses, they could be using them to do opposition comms straight into inboxes. fuck fundraising, just the news of what is happening and what they are doing about it, sent direct to people.
Just went to Costco for the first time and feel like I might die
The little doge rats continue to be stymied by basic web tech. www.theverge.com/news/6128…
unfathomably, blindingly, angry rn but actually getting work done. the body is a remarkably adaptable thing.
As someone that’s been on an Obamacare/ACA exchange plan for years, me and my fam are getting ALLLLLLL our shit done this year because who tf knows what’s next.
Well, being alive was fun I guess.
How much of what has been “discovered” by Elon’s little doge rats has actually been public record all along? Feels like one of those venn diagrams that’s actually a circle.
I’m just listening to Hoover’s “Electrolux” on loop rn. Exactly the right foreboding vibes for this moment in time.
On today’s Rebel Spirit, after a year of being stonewalled by the district, we ask if there’s another way to find out what they’re talking about.
Listener, we filed FOIAs. rebelspiritpodcast.com/episodes/…
The New York Dolls' David Johansen having to crowdfund medical care is so sad and cruel. This country just chews up everyone eventually. deadline.com/2025/02/n…
I’ll take “Ketamine” for $500, Alex
This man has not even been president for one month.
Eric Adams is on the first free flight to Turkey to celebrate.
Well, my fascism coal mine canary just died.
A new episode of Rebel Spirit comes out tomorrow. One of two this month, with big updates! You can catch up now on our NEW website: rebelspiritpodcast.com
Just remembered back in the day when Philly did this.
Right now we need stories of the powerful taking it fully and cleanly in the nuts, so an A+ night start to finish.
Don’t like football, but I fucking LOVE petty.
mea-culpa line I just wrote in an email: “I Jurrasic Parked this: too caught up in whether we could, didn’t ask if we should.”
Not me spending my Saturday night prepping some open records for publishing.
Hope one of those little Doge rats enjoyed watching me fill out the FAFSA right now.
Every day I check my Google Maps like it’s some kind of fascist cole mine canary.
Fuck these fascists for ruining a chill Friday
So the reporting I’d love to see is why, seemingly out of thin air, USAID became the far right’s big bad. Maybe I don’t pay enough attention (jfc) but like… it wasn’t a talking point during the campaign. That first week it wasn’t a priority. But now??? Now they say every bad thing rolls up to it.
Hear ye hear ye, another meeting of the Insomnia Club is called to order.
At my most optimistic, I just don’t think they can sustain this.
ProPublica has launched a handy tracker to keep tabs on who’s who among Musk’s little fash goons projects.propublica.org/elon-musk…
Imagine if billions of dollars HAD been stolen to fund left wing news media. Imagine.
All journalists should work through this very good security checklist from Freedom of the Press Foundation. freedom.press/digisec/b…
Small news orgs that are suddenly on the receiving end of gov documents might want to acquaint themselves with Secure Drop. securedrop.org
(Which in another lifetime I gave early funding to.)
Nobody has ever been as good at something as my dog is at finding and eating shit that will kill her off the ground
I hate all of this for us.
So any 20-year-old self-styled 10x engineer operating today is largely writing code with a lot of help from ChatGPT so like… that feels like a whole hell of a lot of data security issues not even being remotely addressed rn
Lots of new folks here reading & sharing my stuff. Thank you!! I’d love to ask you to follow along by subscribing. It’s free and fun. Or something. dansinker.com/follow/
Everything was so shit that I forgot Paczki Day was today. Absolute failure.
Absolutely raced to do it. Have to be completely thrilled to stop doing the bare-ass minimum level of lip service.
You blow up the department of education for one reason: you want to resegregate the schools.
little fash dipshits
this bigass box of Girl Scout Cookies that just arrived might be the only good thing left rn
Everything has gone to shit, but at least we have Insomnia Club. Welcome.
Can someone get me back to the Sinbad Shazam universe please?
What if you’re always angry but can’t turn into the Hulk, what then.
Dreaming of the day that I don’t have to think about Elon Musk and his little fash dipshits.
sign of the times that I just had to reup an order for TRYING patches. shop.dansinker.com/products/…
Come on, please.
The Arsenal with a good reminder that sometimes you can face the bully and punch them in the fucking dick.
I wrote about how, at a moment where so much insane shit is happening and so many people are trying to deny it, writing it down is a radical act: dansinker.com/posts/202…
everything seems real cool rn
Just to really ensure today is as awful as possible we’re watching Attack of the Clones.
Seems like someone is fucking around with governmental DNS records. What could possibly go wrong. 
The fun thing is I’m completely ignoring that I lost half my income two weeks ago. This should work out well.
I am begging you: if you are writing a thread of more than a couple posts, get a blog. I don’t mean this in a mean way. I mean: allow this thought to continue to exist, outside of this platform, in an actually coherent, readable format that sticks around for longer than 20 minutes. You deserve it!
actually channeled all this anxeity usefully today.
Stephen Miller absolutely would start crying if you pulled a halfway decent headfake on him.
So basically a weird creep is signing a never-ending pile of decrees drafted by other weird creeps which will be implemented and enforced by yet more weird creeps.
My notebook just full of shit like this now.
Seeing Chicago stand up against ICE this week reminded me of why I love this city so much, and gave me a focal point for a reflection on the 50th issue of Punk Planet, which was dedicated to the city. Read it: dansinker.com/posts/202…
If it wasn’t so goddamn tragic, Robert F Kennedy being considered to run anything with “health” in its title would be absolutely hilarious. The man like an overcooked extra from the Walking Dead.
Woke up with a start, had a completely formed opener for this thing I need to write and scrawled it in my journal in the dark in the most unintelligible handwriting that has ever come from my hand.
Anyway, welcome to Insomnia Club.
I’ve been writing more lately and you should sign up to get it in your inbox. No charge, no upsell, just good times. And not on fucking Substack. dansinker.com/follow/
I didn’t believe this was a real headline because it’s just too perfect, but it really is.
🤞🤞🤞✈️🤞🤞🤞
this motherfucker has been president for barely more than a week
Bookship, the anti-amazon that gives $$ to local bookstores with every sale, now has ebooks. That’s a big deal: bookshop.org/info/eboo…
Fucking BEGGING for a precedented time
To circle back on my eggless breakfast thread, just ate a DELICIOUS sausage, potato, and brown rice breakfast burrito that I made a batch of yesterday and froze. Thanks so much to everyone for their excellent advice and ideas!
It’s time once again to call Insomnia Club to order.
escaping reality by watching a lecture on grocery store sign lettering. www.youtube.com/watch
Chicago is getting hammered by raids and Dr Phil is livestreaming and I hate fucking everything. chicago.suntimes.com/live/ice-…
Between eggs and what this Columbia situation will do to coffee, RIP breakfast I guess.
Watching the Phantom Menace for the first time in a long while and jfc what an absolute shitshow it still is.
Fuck Nazis.
Ok who has tips for quick, inexpensive, savory, egg-free breakfast options that aren’t just a hunk of bread because I need em
Ok who has tips for quick, inexpensive, savory, egg-free breakfast options that it’s just a hunk of bread because I need em
Fuck Mitch McConnell. No credit for performative weak sauce bullshit.
That piece of shit is getting dragged of every strip club in DC tonight.
Ok so now that the week is over, I think it’s safe to say this was a real all-timer of a shitshow.
It’s been a few days and I’m not happy to be back, but welcome to Insomnia Club.
Last night I wrote about right now, the collapse of media, and the need for all of us to make things outside of the oligarchy, because we’re all we have. dansinker.com/posts/202…
I wrote about Trump, the oligarchy, media, hiding German anti-fascist texts in seed packets, and how it’s up to us now to get information out: dansinker.com/posts/202…
There’s a very powerful idea in Annalee Newitz’s time travel novel The Future of Another Timeline, where the time travelers gather to recite their memories from the times they experienced before the timelines changed.
That feels like us now.
The thing that was so clear working on Rebel Spirit and is just on full display right now is that segregationists are everywhere, will push back against everything no matter how small, will deny reality that doesn’t line up with their worldview, and will always be fighting to take their power back.
you know what’s hard? concentrating.
No time for bullshit in my inbox today.
Apple’s Tim Cook might be the smartest of all of the tech oligarchs because he was there but didn’t sit in the lineup and so he’s absent from all the photographs while still just as shitty as the rest.
Greetings from the thermometer on my back porch
I have had many friends work at the USDS—some are still there now—and every single one of them left good jobs in tech to work for the government because they believed that the government should really help people. That all got blown up tonight, but thank you for your service.
just this song on loop until it comes true: www.youtube.com/watch
anyway, so this all seems very bad
My St Pauli ANTIFASCIST hoodie is all I’ll be wearing for the next while k thanks.
🖕
Not today satan.
All day instead of my brain being like “oh no Trump takes office tomorrow and things are going to be terrible,” my brain has decided to make me have high anxiety every time the heat turns on, worrying that this one will be the one where it breaks and we’ll be heatless in the polar vortex.
I just keep writing pithy little posts and deleting them and then writing new little jokes and deleting them and then just staring into the middle distance for a while and then trying again
As a parent of a Gen Z kid, I can tell you that their whole entire lives they’ve seen the government put them last. Guns, covid, student loans, cost-of-living, it’s always their gen that has gotten fucked.
This TikTok ban vividly reinforces what they already know.
Finally took care of the real enemy, Marvel Snap.
The best time to start building a little spot for yourself on the internet independent of platforms was yesterday. The second best time is right fucking now.
Spent a bunch of the day with some folks passing through town and am convinced more than ever that person-to-person is how we’re going to make it through this next stretch.
Chicago, it’s time to protect your neighbors.
gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/1…
Anyone else find themselves just cruising along normally and then remember what happens on Monday and everything comes to a screetching halt?
Inauguration shoes just arrived.
Thinking a lot about how for those of us of a certain age, the people who taught us it was OK to be different are all leaving this earth and it feels so desperately lonely.
RIP David Lynch. King of the weirdos.
I’ve worked with dinks like this before that put enormous numbers on a slide deck and the bosses nod enthusiastically and reset everything to meet a made up goal that will never be achieved. (from www.nytimes.com/2025/01/1… )
Here we are, once again, welcoming you to Insomnia Club. It’s the worst club, but we’re in it together.
So like the tiktok ban just seems like a collosally stupid idea, poorly executed, and benefitting basically no one. Absolute A+ job all around.
For the last year I’ve been helping the Chicago Reader try and revitalize their web presence and strategy. It’s been slow going and we were so close to some really cool things and yesterday the bottom fell out. chicagoreader.com/reader/pr…
Rather unexpectedly I’ve got a slightly freed-up work schedule and absolutely would love to work with good folks who have problems to solve. Drop a line!
Wait it’s the MIDDLE of JANUARY???
What the fuck.
Woke up glad it was the weekend. It’s not. It is Insomnia Club though. Welcome.
Lol this week.
Not at all pleased to welcome you yet again to Insomnia Club.
Last night I wrote about Los Angeles and Chicago and ritual and rebuilding. It’s a little love letter and a reminder that there is hope even after the darkest sunsets. dansinker.com/posts/202…
Well well welcome to Insomnia Club. I don’t want to be here and neither do you. And yet here we are.
The first time I went to LA I thought I’d hate it. Instead, I fell in love. In this week of devastating fires, I wrote about that beautiful city, its sunsets, its people, and its dreams.
Read “Standing on the line” on my site: dansinker.com/posts/202…
Why in the world did I decide—when my life was fine and not really in need of anything—to support the Arsenal football club.
Sometimes I lie awake and think about these headlines and sometimes I just lie awake.
Well here we are awake once again. Welcome back… to Insomnia Club.
The person that invented hummus really nailed that shit
More than anything it would be nice, for once, to be given the time to properly grieve.
Just gonna say that we never should have shoveled VC cash at kids that never lived in the world for even a minute.
I mean I gotta hand it to them, the weeklong Mark Zuckerberg: Shitbag tour rollout was flawless
banner day for wrist slaps. www.reuters.com/legal/us-…
Had a friend post that they could take in a cat, had another friend post that a friend’s parents needed a place for their cat, and now that first friend has that other friend’s friend’s parent’s cat.
Change happens one person at a time.
I love that the Santa Monica Pier livecams are operating and you can just watch people at the beach and the pier like they’re giving a big middle finger to the apocalypse. pacpark.com/santa-mon…
one of those days where I’m uselessly refreshing news instead of actually doing work
Side-eye about the LA Times aside, their fire map is very good, built by a good dev who I know personally. Solid, will vouch. Just zoom into LA. www.latimes.com/wildfires…
Every year without fail the online quickie ordaining site sends me a happy anniversary email from when I became a reverend.
Anyway, happy 7th anniversary to me.
Yesterday I wrote about getting off Threads and how we all need to define the lines we won’t cross now that every tech exec has bent the knee to Trump. dansinker.com/posts/202…
Checking into the doctor and the person running the desk walked to the back and said, loudly, “I can’t do this anymore.”
Same same.
Feels great to see hell unfold in California and know that exactly the wrong people for the job will be taking power in 12 days.
Lightly banging the gavel and whispering that Insomnia Club is called to order. Very much not glad to be here or to see you, but welcome.
Hope the LA Times is being sure to print the fire’s point of view too.
Who’s building a Stories-like product on AT proto or the Fediverse?
LA folks and friends, I hope that you are safe.
After Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that he was folding to Donald Trump and the far right, I can’t stick around on Threads. Leaving Twitter was hard, but this is easy.
Read “Pulling the Threads” on my site: dansinker.com/posts/202…
so like Trump 100% wants Greenland because the mercator map projection makes it look enormous right?
Missed the news yesterday that Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White has joined the Meta board of directors. www.npr.org/2025/01/0…
Made it a week into the new year before calling to order the first meeting of Insomnia Club for 2025.
Four years later the only person at the top to have seen any real repercussions from the entire 2020 election denial movement is Rudy, which is simultaneously an outrage, hilarious, and sad. Like they all met up and said he was gonna be the fall guy while he’s still waiting for the calvery to come.
This week I watched two separate Netflix shows of entirely different genres both with completely shoehorned-in references to Britta Filters and I hate the world we live in.
TOMORROW, JAN 5! Come see me, Mikki Kendall, Peter Sagal, and 17 others of Chicago’s best speaking for two minutes each at 20x2. 7pm, Gman, $20, will be wild. 20x2.org/chicago/
Training their bots for the dunks
The first small step in making a better internet for each other is starting to establish a presence there that isn’t owned by a platform. Separate your self from Meta and Twitter and Substack and own your presence. Is it as easy? No, but it’s worth it.
If anyone is looking for a lightweight journaling framework for the new year, a couple years ago I wrote how I approach it. I’m now entering my fifth unbroken year of daily use. dansinker.com/posts/ref…
Waking up to carnage: an American story.
Here we go.
